John Carter McKnight's Profile

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The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown

Does Technology Drive History? by Leo Marx

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John Carter McKnight gave to: Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work by Anne Balsamo	My rating:
Designing Culture just barely loses five stars, for a couple shortcomings, but it is an outstanding work at the intersection of science & technology studies, literacy studies and design, which not only does justice to each field but says new and impo...more
Jan 31, 2012 11:29am · see review
John Carter McKnight liked Michael Burnam-fink's review of The Art Of The Long View: " I've been calling myself a futurist for the past five years, and for five years, I've been lying. But no longer, because I've read this book, which is every bit as a thought-provoking as Science Fiction for Prototyping proved disappointing. Peter Sch... " Read more of this review »
Jan 29, 2012 02:16pm · see review
John Carter McKnight gave to: The Difference Engine by William Gibson	My rating:
The Difference Engine is better read as Great Big Idea SF than as an exemplar of the genre it gave rise to, steampunk. Rather a grim alternate history of a proto-totalitarian Britain run by a government of science and industry and police steam comput...more
Jan 28, 2012 10:17pm · see review
John Carter McKnight gave to: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder	My rating:
Jan 28, 2012 07:36pm
John Carter McKnight gave to: Male Femaling: A Grounded Approach to Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing by Richard Ekins	My rating:
One of the best academic monographs I've read: an outstanding, tight linkage of theory, methodology, deep research (17 years of fieldwork) to produce a strong, coherent schema for distinguishing among a range of complex and inter-related phenomena. Wh...more
Jan 22, 2012 01:28pm · see review
John Carter McKnight gave to: Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano	My rating:
Jan 20, 2012 01:18pm
John Carter McKnight liked Michael Burnam-fink's review of The Tunnels of Cu Chi: " Do you think you're hard? Do you think you're some sort of Tier Zero Modern Warfare Elite Ops Deniable Badass? Do you even think you know about such people? Until you've read this book, you don't know shit. Cu Chi was a district just 25 mile... " Read more of this review »
Jan 17, 2012 10:08am · see review
John Carter McKnight gave to: Unzipping Gender: Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture (Dress, Body, Culture) by Charlotte Suthrell	My rating:
The final chapter bumped this up to 4 stars: until then the author hadn't adequately made the case for writing a comparative study of UK transvestites and Indian Hijras, nor engaged with theory of identity and gender in a deep way, but the ending pul...more
Jan 14, 2012 09:34am · see review
John Carter McKnight liked Michael Burnam-fink's review of American Genesis: " America Genesis claims to cover a century of innovation, but the core of the book is much more tightly focused on the Second Industrial Revolution, electrification, motor transport, and mass production, and the rise of the immense technological syste... " Read more of this review »
Jan 12, 2012 01:10pm · see review
John Carter McKnight added a quote "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of time and besides it annoys the pig." — Robert A. Heinlein
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